Maureen Dowd's New Civility

I don't read the lady often, and this seems like encouragement to continue so:

(The Supreme Court) has squandered even the semi-illusion that it is the unbiased, honest guardian of the Constitution. It is run by hacks dressed up in black robes...

Just as in the Senate’s shameful Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings...

John Roberts Jr...is deceiving; he’s a crimson partisan, simply more cloaked than the ideologically rigid and often venomous Scalia.

Just as Scalia voted to bypass that little thing called democracy...

Inexplicably mute 20 years after he lied his way onto the court, Clarence Thomas didn’t ask a single question...

Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and the insufferable Samuel Alito were nurtured in the conservative Federalist Society, which asserts that “it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.”

And the duty of the judiciary to prevent the politicians from acting without Constitutional authorization, even if they they have majority opinion behind them.

Some people seem to think that good policy is automatically authorized. They seem to forget that others may have ideas on good policies which are quite different.